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Everything was planned out — speakers lined up, venues reserved and community Shabbat services planned for the biennial LimmudFest New Orleans in March 2020. Then, 11 days before the weekend of Jewish learning was to begin, it was “postponed” because of this new virus called […]

Photo from Savannah Theatre/Facebook Henry Stern was born in Germany just before World War II, but the playwright of a new musical, “We’ll Meet Again,” says Stern’s life is “a uniquely American story.” Stern grew up in Opelika and became a beloved member of the […]

This Shabbat will be the final one in Birmingham for Knesseth Israel Rabbi Moshe Rube. In an open letter released on Aug. 22, he said that he has accepted the position of senior rabbi at Auckland Hebrew Congregation in Auckland, New Zealand, and he plans […]

The Alabama Holocaust Education Center in Birmingham announced that Susan Braden-Aresco, currently the director of strategic partnerships at the Auschwitz Institute for the Prevention of Genocide and Mass Atrocities in New York City, will be the new AHEC executive director. She arrives as the longtime […]

The Silent Partner, by Arthur Szyk The National World War II Museum in New Orleans is hosting an exhibit by illustrator and political cartoonist Arthur Szyk, “In Real Times. Arthur Szyk: Art and Human Rights,” from Sept. 1 to May 7. An opening reception will […]

Morningstar financial-services building in downtown Chicago. Credit: Adriana.Macias/Shutterstock. By Mike Wagenheim (JNS) — Following a JNS report on a growing list of state agencies investigating the investment firm Morningstar for potential anti-Israel practices, Reuters reported this week that 18 U.S. states have joined a Missouri […]

Several Jewish authors will have appearances at the Mississippi Book Festival on Aug. 20, along with a noted author who has been disinvited from several festivals because of her promotion of antisemitic conspiracy theories. The free festival, which had been on hiatus since 2019 due […]

By Joseph Frager (JNS) — The Democratic Party today is moving ever leftward. Brian Robinson, however, is looking to change that. He is running for Congress in a hotly contested primary scheduled for Aug. 23 in New York’s 10th Congressional District, which comprises lower Manhattan, […]

By Lee J. Green In just three minutes, many years of lifetime and history can be told. “Three Minutes — A Lengthening,” a feature-length documentary inspired by three minutes of 16-millimeter color film footage shot in a small Polish village by an émigré from America, […]